School Admission Criteria - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses.

30 May 2009 PURPOSE: To determine whether underrepresented minority (URM) students receive lower grades than do non-URM students in college prehealth gateway courses; the extent to which lower grade performance might be explained by the differences in ... Read more...

Recent admissions trends at UNLV-SDM: perspectives on recruitment of female and minority students at a new dental school.

30 Oct 2008 As the U.S. population continues to become more diverse, there has been a movement toward the recruitment of more diverse students into the dental profession. The purpose of this study was to assess the current and historical trends in diversity ... Read more...

Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance.

15 Mar 2008 OBJECTIVE: To assess how well prior academic performance, admission tests, and interviews predict academic performance in a graduate medical school. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Analysis of academic performance of 706 students in three ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'School Admission Criteria - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses. 30 May 2009
• [Faculty for nursing careers--how does the future look?] 30 Mar 2009
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Recent admissions trends at UNLV-SDM: perspectives on recruitment of female and minority students at a new dental school. 30 Oct 2008
• On the case for an interview in medical student selection. 30 Jul 2008
• The UK medical workforce: sleepwalking into isolation? 26 Jun 2008
• Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance. 15 Mar 2008
• Selecting medical students. 15 Mar 2008
• Selection criteria for the integrated model of plastic surgery residency. 28 Feb 2008
• Increasing the representation of underrepresented minority groups in US colleges and schools of pharmacy. 13 Feb 2008
• Improving academic achievement: can a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model help? 30 Dec 2007
• Increasing diversity: underrepresented minorities. 30 Dec 2007
• Putting "rural" into psychiatry residency training programs. 30 Oct 2007
• Medical school admissions: revisiting the veracity and independence of completion of an autobiographical screening tool. 29 Sep 2007
• Uncertainties in the selection of applicants for medical school. 15 Aug 2007
• [Selection of medical students: a process influenced by history and culture] Apr 2007
• The predictive utility of nontraditional test scores for first-year pharmacy student academic performance. 13 Dec 2006
• Social accountability in theory and practice. 30 Aug 2006
• A workforce analysis informing medical school expansion, admissions, support for primary care, curriculum, and research. 30 Aug 2006

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Technical information about 'School Admission Criteria'

Definition: Requirements for the selection of students for admission to academic institutions.

Descriptor UI: D012570

Alternative terms: School Admission Criteria; Admission Criteria, School; Criteria, School Admission; Student Selection; Selection, Student; Selections, Student; Student Selections;

Allowable Qualifiers: statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: I02.399.750;

History Note: 91(75); was see under EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT 1975-90

Technical Notes: few qualif apply